SHORT WALK GLEANINGS

I'm NOT saying fever or back problems are things to laugh at. They're not. All I know is we have a God Who is MUCH BIGGER than all we can't see past, yes?

Like all that construction work being done on the river. I remembered how, when the Kiddy Park in Iwatsuki was renovated or the ponds were cleaned, they had an alarming negative effect on the wildlife. I was saddened to think I'd see it again here in Okinawa. The Dike was completed now, and along it...swam the coots, just like before; they hadn't gone anywhere! (Can you see the egret?)

Come to think of it, during construction, the waterfowl could often be seen atop construction equipment, resting or fishing in the river. They'd never been chased away or been made to feel unwelcome then, so this new strange human rock slab must not be harmful, they must've surmised, and simply added it to their daily background.

It wasn't just the Coots and Egrets around the dike.

I hurriedly snapped a picture of the Red-legged Sandpiper who came to introduce himself. I got excited when I saw him starting to play with a Cormorant on the river, snagged the shot.

I really wasn't feeling well so wasn't supposed to stay out, but we were seeing all this in our short walk home!

"I got him, I got him?" but what Kinya saw was a tangle of construction rope hiding the tail end of a bird kicking off the surface of the water to go home. He laughed at me. Time we went home too.

So I ruefully submit this photo of a "four-legged wooden bird", where we crossed the street when the light turned.